I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.


Umberto Eco

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But I must hope that books possess a life of a more varied kind than their authors' myopia concedes ...
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[...] there is one inexorable law of technology, and it is this: when revolutionary inventions becom...
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إنّ الهواتفَ الجوَّالة لا يمكنها أن تدوم ، أوّلًا ، لأن...
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حتىٰ الآن لا تصلح الهواتف الجوَّالة إلَّا للأزواج الخا...
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But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Chris...
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L'essere umano è davvero una creatura straordinaria. Ha scoperto il fuoco, edificato città, scritt...
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To survive, you must tell stories.
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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn...
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Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tact...
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Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty part...
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The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,
the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improve...
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The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more ev...
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The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.
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Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep...
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For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded ...
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The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are th...
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I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our ba...
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And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most lovi...
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All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are...
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But why do some people support [the heretics]?"
"Because it serves their purposes, which conce...
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In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a...
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There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I...
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But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of tho...
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لا أعرف شيئا ليس هناك شيئ أعلمه .و إنما بعض الأشياء يحسه...
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...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy...
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We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could l...
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This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the...
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How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by
the often perverse wisdom of man!
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Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.
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A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a nove...
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كان رجال العهود الغابرة وسيمي الطلعة طويلي القامة و �...
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True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in...
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Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same ...
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We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
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Love is wiser than wisdom.
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Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now...
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Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in ev...
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the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most ...
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100
degrees centigrade in pla...
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The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of d...
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Priešas turi būti atpažįstamas ir baisus, jis turi būti tavo namuose arba prie durų slenksčio...
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